Edith Stein Quotes on God
Edith Stein (1891–1942) — the Jewish phenomenologist who studied under Husserl, converted to Catholicism, entered the Carmelite order under the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, and was murdered at Auschwitz — gave twentieth-century Catholic philosophy one of its most distinctive syntheses of Husserlian phenomenology with the Thomistic tradition. The major late work Finite and Eternal Being (Endliches und ewiges Sein, written 1936, published 1950) develops the central question of the relationship between created finite being and the divine eternal being through a phenomenological reading of Aquinas, integrating the analysis with the parallel work on empathy from her doctoral dissertation under Husserl and the Carmelite mystical theology of John of the Cross she developed in The Science of the Cross. The framework shaped subsequent Catholic phenomenological and feminist theology and remains a principal twentieth-century philosophical engagement between phenomenology and the Christian doctrine of God.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“All that comes to me from God is a sign of His love.”
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must go out of oneself.”
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“God is truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.”
Letter to Sr. Adelgundis Jaegerschmid, 23 March 1938 -
“Collected Works Vol. IV. Part 1 : Before the Face of God , Ch.1 : "On the History and Spirit of Carmel”
What is meant by "the Law of the Lord"? Psalm 118 which we pray every Sunday and on solemnities at Prime, is entirely filled with the command to know the Law and to be led by it through life. The Psalmist was certainly thinking of the Law of the Old Covenant. Knowing it actually did require life-long study and fulfilling it, life-long exertion of the will. But the Lord has freed us from the yoke o -
“Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose. The clear and irrevocable world of Scripture declares what daily experience teaches from the beginning of the world: woman is destined to be wife and mother.”
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“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.”
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“Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession.”
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“Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.”
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“We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.”
Fundamental Principles of Women's Education(1931) -
“As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God 's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.”
The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace(1932) -
“The distinction of the female sex is that a woman was the person who was permitted to help establish God's new kingdom; the distinction of the male sex is that redemption came through the Son of Man, the new Adam.”
The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace(1932)